Subject

Publisher

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Original Photographer

Department / Discipline

Herpetology

Permanent Hall

Hall of Reptiles and Amphibians

Original Caption

Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus bornensis), Borneo. The only known species of this family (Lanthanotidae) is one of the world's rarest reptiles. Features of its anatomy seem to link it more closely than any other living lizard to Unknown ancestor of snakes.